Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aiken emphasized that there are certain "first principles of philosophy which scientific thinking cannot explain...
...they have a long way to go before they rival the brain. A big calculator with 10,000 vacuum tubes may be a useful machine, but it has no more "intelligence" than a primitive flatworm with about that number of nerve cells. Lecturer McCulloch frankly admits that he cannot explain, in terms of electrical engineering, the brain's creative powers...
...people who buy your albums see you"), and dropping into record shops to wow the salesgirls. Says Frankie, who likes to say his success is all a mystery and not a matter of mugging, writhing and hard work: "I can't explain it. Some people say I'm a fluke...
Emory Leon Chaffee '11, Rumford Professor of Physics and newly appointed chairman of the department of Engineering in the Arts and Sciences Faculty, stated yesterday that no details could be revealed until the corporation had decided on the proposal. He did not explain how any merger would affect the graduate student in engineering. Presumably the only difference would be that all graduate students in engineering would receive either M.A. or Ph.D. degrees rather than the B.S. or MS. degrees now offered by the Graduate School of Engineering...
...These are true guided missiles," said the Air Force, "which can be launched in one direction, then changed in their flight to hit another target." The steering is done by the four fins in the rocket's tail. The Air Force did not explain how the fins are controlled from the ground, and admitted that the degree of control is "not great...